{"id":10627,"date":"2016-01-27T15:38:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=10627"},"modified":"2016-01-27T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T20:38:17","slug":"how-to-control-your-notification-icons-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-control-your-notification-icons-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Control Your Notification Icons In Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to Control Your Notification Icons In Windows 10<\/h1>\n<p>Windows 10 is getting very popular &#8211; not only because it is free to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 users (until July 2016) &#8211; but because it&#8217;s a great operating system. It&#8217;s like a modern day Windows XP. Well, maybe not that good, but certainly one of the best Windows ever.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that makes Windows 10 unique is its customization features &#8211; for instance Notification icons.. Those are the icons that appear in the area on the right-hand side of your taskbar (assuming your taskbar is at the bottom) next to the clock.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to control what shows and doesn&#8217;t show up in the Notification portion of the taskbar &#8211; and we&#8217;re going show you just how easy it is.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Right-click on any empty area of your taskbar and select &#8220;Properties&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Click on Customize (see image below):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/notification-customize.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Settings dialog will open to &#8220;System&#8221; &#8220;Notifications &amp; actions&#8221; (see below):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/notification-customize1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click on &#8220;Select which icons appear in on the taskbar&#8230;&#8221; (this will be in the notification area to the left of the clock).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/notification-customize2a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want something to always show in the portion of the taskbar to the very left of the clock slide the on\/off switch to On.<\/li>\n<li>See below I switched &#8220;Faststone Capture&#8221; to On &#8211; so now it shows in my the area of my Taskbar near the clock &#8211; or what we generally call the Notification area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/notification-customize4c.png \" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And below you can see Faststone Capture now appears in the Notification area of the Taskbar:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/notification-customize4d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And while we on the subject, don&#8217;t forget the little up arrow (circled in white above). This displays the other hidden icons in the Notification area.<\/p>\n<p>Now you know how to make icons show and how to hide icons in the Notification area of the taskbar.<\/p>\n<p>Now go forth and keep customize your taskbar icons to suit you &#8211; not the suits at Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Control Your Notification Icons In Windows 10 Windows 10 is getting very popular &#8211; not only because it is free to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 users (until July 2016) &#8211; but because it&#8217;s a great operating system. It&#8217;s like a modern day Windows XP. Well, maybe not that good, but certainly one of the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-control-your-notification-icons-in-windows-10\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10628,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions\/10628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}